German Scientists Are Sending A Robot To The Apollo 17 Landing Site, To Disprove Moon Landing Truthers

Despite the fact that everyone from the Mythbusters to Buzz “Punch-Out” Aldrin has shot them down, moon landing conspiracy theories just will not die. So a bunch of Germans, sick to death of hearing about them, are going to disprove them by sending a robot to the moon to explore the lunar landing site.

Admittedly, they’re also doing it because they can make a ton of cash. Google has a Lunar X-Prize, essentially a giant cash reward of $20 million to get a robot on the moon and met certain criteria, like traveling a few hundred feet and sending photos back to Earth. Teams also get a bonus for exploring a lunar landing site, so the Germans has some cash at stake. Since lunar landing sites are important history that need to be preserved, the rover can only get about 200 meters away, but that’s more than close enough to snap a few pictures and both secure a giant pile of cash and stick it to every tiresome jerk on the internet.

Either way, 2017 promises to be interesting, as in order to get the prize, the teams have to land on the Moon by 2017. And once they do that, well, we have a viable method of landing robots on the moon and poking around. Or possibly digging out tunnels for a lunar colony, although one step at a time.

How about we just ignore moon landing conspiracy theorists? I’m going to ignore them.

If you went on vacation to the Bahamas in 1997 and a shit ton of people doubt that ever happened despite ample evidence to the contrary, how persistent will your attempts be to refute their claims before you just stop listening to their inane blatherings?

Here’s the problem with conspiracy theorists…they don’t trust German scientists any more than they trust American scientists. Once your brain has flipped the switch which allows it to ignore all contrary evidence, anything goes.